OLD CRUISER SCUTTLED
(Eeeeived 19th ■ February, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. What was left of the old Australian cruiser Pioneer, after stripping at Garden Island, was towed to sea last evening and scuttled. Built, thirty-two years * ago, one of seven of an experimental typo midway between torpedo-boat and light cruiser, which failed to realise expectations, the Pioneer, nevertheless, did great work in war time, including assistance in the destruction of the German warship Konigsberg and the capture of sevoial merchantmen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 11
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